Krzywiń

Krzywiń was first referred to in scripts as Crivin in 1181. But it was not until 1237 that the area's reputation grew as a prominent marketplace. It was then that it was referred to as a town. Incorporation of the town followed in 1257.^[3] It was a private church town, administratively located in the Kościan County in the Poznań Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland.^[4]

Following the German-Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II in September 1939, the town was occupied by Germany until 1945. Local prominent Poles were among the victims of a massacre of Poles from the county, perpetrated by the Germans in November 1939 in the forest near Kościan as part of the Intelligenzaktion.^[5] Several Poles who were either born or lived and worked in Krzywiń, including the local police chief, were murdered by the Russians in the Katyn massacre in 1940.^{[6][7][8][9][10]} In 1943, the German security police carried out expulsions of Poles, who were then placed in a transit camp in Poznań, and afterwards deported to the General Government in the more eastern part of German-occupied Poland, while their houses and farms were handed over to German colonists as part of the Lebensraum policy.^[11]

Krzywiń lies on voivodeship road 432.

The nearest railway station is in Leszno.

There are three schools in Krzywiń. There is a primary school, a junior high school and a high school.

The local football club is Promień Krzywiń.^[13] It competes in the lower leagues.

• Krystyn Szelejewski (d. 1457/1459), Polish nobleman and castellan

Krzywiń is twinned with:^[14]

• Souleuvre en Bocage, France since 1997